🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
O2 arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Saturday, 09 May 2015
Last year, Canada opened the Worlds with a shocking shootout loss to France. On Saturday, the Canadians staved off a third-period French rally to prevail 4-3.
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With virtually every professional and international competition (besides the NHL playoffs) complete, the world’s best will assemble in Czechia for the 79th IIHF World Championship, looking to assert their hockey supremacy and punch their ticket to the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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2014 was quite a year for the International Hockey Lineal Championship, in that theihlc.com formally launched in September, bringing 100+ years of international hockey history online. But this calendar year certainly saw its share of movement and excitement as well.
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Amid reports of a European “All-Star” team making up a seventh team at the 2016 World Cup Of Hockey, which would be comprised of players from nations not already fielding full teams (Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czechia), much speculation has already begun about what that potential team would look like. Matt Larkin of The Hockey News took the speculation a step further, setting a full projected roster for 2016, which brings up a very unique and interesting looking squad.
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The IIHF has released a new microsite for the 2015 World Championship in Prague and Ostrava, Czechia, iihfworlds2015.com, and with it released the full schedule for the World Championship in May.
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Some more details on the 2015 Worlds in Prague and Ostrava have been released – the all-important groupings! The teams break down as follows (current IIHF rankings in parentheses):
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🇫🇷 FRANCE (FRA) Men’s National Ice Hockey Team (1905-)
21 wins, 10 reigns, 22 games with IHLC – ranked 11th
IHLC last held 04 May 2018
France played in the first ever men’s international hockey game in 1905, losing the inaugural IHLC to Belgium, before becoming the second ever champion in 1906. While France was a competitive squad in the pre-war era, Les Bleus were largely dormant during the Iron Curtain era of dominance, only coming back on to the championship stage in the early 1990’s. Since then, however, France has held the IHLC on a number occasions, and continue to qualify star players into the NHL and KHL.
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🇮🇹 Italy 2-1 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Chyzhouka-Arena, Minsk 🇧🇾
Sunday, 11 May 2014
In what both teams had labelled as a key game in Group A play, Italy beat France 2-1 after Markus Gander scored with less than one minute remaining.
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🇫🇷 France 3-2 Canada 🇨🇦 (SO)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Chyzhouka-Arena, Minsk 🇧🇾
Friday, 09 May 2014
In a stunning upset, France opened the 2014 Worlds with a 3-2 shootout win over Canada at Chizhovka Arena. Pierre-Édouard Bellemare got the lone shootout goal.
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 5-4 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
France needed a win in regulation time to clinch a spot in the quarter-finals. Slovakia just needed a point.
It was a hard fought game, and in the end Slovakia got what it wanted, a 5-4 win, the points, and a spot in the quarter-finals.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 1-0 France 🇫🇷 (OT)
World Championship Preliminary Round
Steel Aréna, Košice 🇸🇰
Friday, 29 April 2011
It took a while for someone to generate an offensive spark in the tournament opener for both France and Switzerland, but when it came it was electrifying. Julien Vauclair’s goal at 1:46 of overtime gave Switzerland a 1-0 victory over France.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 1-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
PostFinance Arena, Bern 🇨🇭
Friday, 24 April 2009
Backed by a capacity crowd of 11,417, Switzerland did what had to be done – not much more – as it beat France 1-0 in its opening game of the 2009 World Championship.
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🇨🇭 Switzerland 6-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Sazka Arena, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 25 April 2004
BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:11 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Zwikel, hooking
09:10 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Vauclair, elbowing
09:59 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Paterlini, high sticking
15:30 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Fischer, interference
18:01 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Coqueux, interference
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🇸🇪 Sweden 6-1 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Hallenstadion, Zürich 🇨🇭
Saturday, 02 May 1998
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:46 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemoine, interference
04:05 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Modin (Sundström)
04:46 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Falk (Hävelid)
05:24 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Bergqvist (Johansson)
05:49 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Jönsson (Renberg)
11:19 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Aimonetto, roughing
12:38 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Bergqvist, interference
18:55 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Hävelid, high sticking
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🇨🇿 Czechia 9-2 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Group Round
Albert-Schultz-Eishalle, Vienna 🇦🇹
Saturday, 27 April 1996
BOXSCORE
1st Period
08:39 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bonk, roughing
08:39 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Briand, roughing
09:55 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Pouget, cross checking
10:43 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Kaberle (Patera, Procházka)
12:12 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Bonk, high sticking
13:43 – 🇫🇷 PP GOAL – Dubé (Zytynsky, F. Rozenthal)
16:53 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Kučera (Ujčík, Turek)
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 6-2 France 🇫🇷
Olympic Preliminary Round
Gjøvik Olympiske Fjellhall, Gjøvik 🇳🇴
Monday, 21 February 1994
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:53 – 🇸🇰 PEN – Kontšek, tripping
05:25 – 🇸🇰 SH GOAL – Šatan (Petrovický)
08:40 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Petrovický (Švehla, Jánoš)
11:11 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemarque, elbowing
15:33 – 🇸🇰 GOAL – Šatan
17:29 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Pousse (Girard, Guennelon)
17:41 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Briand, hooking
18:09 – 🇸🇰 PP GOAL – Šatan (Petrovický, Smerciak)
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🇫🇷 France 3-1 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Relegation Round
Olympiahalle, Munich 🇩🇪
Thursday, 25 April 1993
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:34 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Tschumi
04:52 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perez
06:17 – 🇨🇭 PP GOAL – Hollenstein (Lüthi, Wäger)
08:18 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Dunn
13:56 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Almasy
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🇷🇺 Russia 8-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship Preliminary Round
Sportovní Hala, Prague 🇨🇿
Sunday, 03 May 1992
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:30 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Perez
09:28 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zhitnik
13:33 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Byakin (Bautin)
13:50 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Poudrier
17:59 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Bautin
19:42 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Kovalenko (Butsayev, Yushkevich)
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 France 🇫🇷
Olympic Preliminary Round
Patinoire de Méribel, Méribel 🇫🇷
Saturday, 08 February 1992
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:18 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dahl, cross checking
01:27 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Tippett, charging
07:05 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Juneau (Brost)
11:06 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Lemoine, cross checking
17:11 – 🇫🇷 GOAL – Barin (Dunn, Laporte)
17:47 – 🇫🇷 PEN – Guennelon, holding
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🇬🇧 Great Britain 9-0 France 🇫🇷
World Championship First Round
Empress Hall, London 🇬🇧
Monday, 13 March 1950
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:00 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Nicholson (B. Smith)
16:10 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Carlyle (Rolland)
17:45 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Quales (B. Smith)
19:10 – 🇬🇧 GOAL – Neil (Nicholson)
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